Gimp is likely overkill (and is a pain to work with for batch...). Although ImageMagick has no color-to-alpha operation, [someone came up with a "formula" that works very well](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26408022/imagemagick-color-to-alpha-like-the-gimp#27194202):

    convert in.png \( -clone 0 -fill "#55f883" -colorize 100 \) \( -clone 0,1 -compose difference -composite -separate +channel -evaluate-sequence max -auto-level \) -delete 1 -alpha off -compose over -compose copy_opacity -composite out.png

Where #55f883 is your background color. Replace `convert` with `magick convert` in recent versions.

ImageMagick is the `imagemagick` package in your distro.